HOUSTON – Ditch your camera phones and leave your laptops behind, the 1850's are making a comeback!Â
Sort of...tintype photography, the old-timey photo technique where an image is printed on thin slates of metal, is seeing a resurgence in popularity.Â
Houston photographer Laura Burlton is a local tintype photographer that creates beautifully executed portraits using a mix of cameras and lenses from the 1850's to 1950's.Â
Burlton makes the chemicals she uses to develop her pictures by hand, which include a mix of ether, collodion, bromide, silver nitrate and more.
A traditional chemical they used back in the 1850's was cyanide, but Burlton prefers a less lethal set of chemicals for the same job today.Â
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An example of one of Laura Burlton's tintype photographs.Â
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Watch Houston Life correspondent Lauren Kelly get her tintype portrait made in the video above.Â
You can also check out Laura Burlton's website here and Instagram here.Â
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